Edited by Joan Copjec, Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson, and Martha Buskirk. Essays "The Emergence of Cultural Studies and the Crisis of the Humanities," by Stuart Hall; "Federal Papers," by Catharine Stimpson; "Political Detention: Countering the University," by Barbara Harlow; "Words without Things: The Mode of Information," by Mark Poster; "Power and Freedom: Opposition and the Humanities," by Paul A. Bové; "The New Cultural Politics of Difference," by Cornel West.